PRONUNCIATION OF OOLITE

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WHAT DOES OOLITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oolite

Oolite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. The name derives from the Hellenic word òoion for egg. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 mm; rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites. The term oolith can refer to oolite or individual ooids.

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TRANSLATION OF OOLITE

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OOLITE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OOLITE»

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British Jurassic Gasteropoda: A monograph of the inferior ...

There appears to be a really large coral growth in the Upper or Ragstone division
of the Inferior Oolite on Dundry Hill. So far as I know, this is the only accumulation
in beds of this age throughout England to which the term “ reef ” could be fairly ...

Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston, 1896

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Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel

Borehole have also been tentatively assigned to the Inferior Oolite on lithological
grounds, but without any pa- laeontological support. To the northeast of Dover,
the Inferior Oolite is overstepped by the Great Oolite. 4.4.2.3 Great Oolite Group ...

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14.14. Section from the Mendip Hills to the Vale of Morcton showing the
development of the Inferior Oolite Group in the Cotswold Hills. Modified after
Arkell ( 1933). Fig. 14.15. Lithostratigraphical nomenclature of the Inferior Oolite
Group in.

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The Philosophical Magazine: Or Annals of Chemistry, ...

1 presume that this is the first instance in which galena has been found in so
comparatively recent a formation ; but the connection of the inferior oolite with the
carboniferous limestone in that neighbourhood, apparently affords data for ...

‎1827

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Philosophical Magazine

This last plate is a sort of skeleton of England, after the manner of Buache, whose
system the author seems to have imbibed ; it points out the great ridge of "yellow
limestone" (perhaps the oolite), and the chalk ranges, — from Sidtnouth to the ...

‎1832

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OOLITE»

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So there was reason to hope when he announced a return with Oolite Restaurant & Bar steps off Lincoln Road in the space briefly occupied by ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»